Sergio Pereira has been a Software Engineer and CTO for 13 years. Sergio has built tech products for several fast growing startups, such as Bulk MRO, StudentFinance and Candidly. For the last 7 years, Sergio has managed fully remote teams, either full time or working as a Fractional CTO. He is also a public speaker on remote work and managing tech teams, having spoken at major tech conferences and being an instructor at O’Reilly, Udemy and Gumroad.

We talk about what it takes to be a fractional CTO, how Sergio navigates chaos while building diverse engineering teams, the benefits of being a content creator, and his view on how to get jobs as a fractional engineer.

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00:00 Starting out is very challenging

00:30 Who is Sergio?

02:40 It was never his dream to go fractional

03:45 How Sergio started out

04:40 What does it mean to be a Fractional CTO?

05:50 Why clients hire fractional over full-time

07:25 What clients ask Sergio

08:50 What kind of chaos does Sergio prefer?

11:25 It gets fun once you're over the hump

12:35 How to build a great team (fave part)

14:33 Sergio started hiring remote very early

16:20 What he learned after interviewing 1000+

19:25 How he manages diverse workforces

21:05 Why Sergio believes in written communication

22:27 Sergio's Remote Work Academy

24:41 Don't settle for the office!

26:50 How remote work will change the world

27:24 How Sergio manages Remote Work Academy

28:18 How Sergio became a content creator

31:45 Why Sergio wants to stay a content creator

32:25 Serendipity just by showing up online

33:00 How Sergio gets clients through Twitter

34:15 Sergio's advice for fractional workers